overstretched in English

verb
1
stretch too much.
the aches and pains of overstretched muscles
2
make excessive demands on.
classes are very large and facilities are overstretched
verb

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1. The prison service is badly overstretched.

2. 8 The prison service is badly overstretched.

3. Our armed forces are seriously overstretched and underresourced.

4. Strains occur when a muscle or tendon is overstretched .

5. 7 Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.

6. Rising debt costs could force many overstretched homeowners to default and their lenders to foreclose.

7. Cause: Groin strain occurs when the Adductor muscles are overstretched, and is usually a result of a side stepping action, twisting motion or …

8. Bloat (canine) (gastric dilatation volvulus), an overstretched and rotated stomach in dogs Bloat (ruminant) (ruminal tympany), an excessive volume of gas in ruminants Bloating, an abnormal swelling or enlargement of the abdomen; Gas Bloat syndrome, a complication of Nissen fundoplication surgery; Computing

9. The Cuban government controls the movement of people into Havana on the grounds that the Havana metropolitan area (home to nearly 20% of the country's population) is overstretched in terms of land use, water, electricity, transportation, and other elements of the urban infrastructure.

10. In posterior dislocations the popliteal artery is normally overstretched between hiatus of adductor magnus m. and sural branches (P I), whereas anterior dislocations showed a popliteal artery lesion near by sural branches (P II) or between sural branches and the end of tibiofibular trunc (P III).

11. During Hu Zongnan's initial success, he was able to overrun the communists base in Shaanxi and forced the communists to evacuate most of their governmental bodies to the east of the Yellow River at a cost of merely losing 20,000 troops out of a quarter million total in the process, but in order to guard the newly conquered vast regions, the nationalist troops were dangerously overstretched and spread thin.